Lang Walker AO biography

Lang Walker Introducing

Lang

Walker Corporation Founder and Executive Chairman

For over 55 years, Lang Walker has been a leader in placemaking across the globe, creating communities and transforming urban spaces. Lang’s passion, enthusiasm and natural intuition for property has helped his teams deliver thousands of projects for Australia’s most respected privately owned development company Walker Corporation.

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Lang relishes the hard challenges which others won’t touch because he has a unique skill to visualise a transformation and bring that to reality. He applied this skill to save and restore Woolloomooloo Wharf and Broadway Shopping Centre, transform King Street Wharf, Collins Square, Parramatta Square and Festival Plaza and turn one of Australia’s most toxic and contaminated former industrial sites into a thriving mixed-use Sydney community at Rhodes.

Parramatta Square is one of Lang’s greatest achievements with a $3 billion investment totally rejuvenating a tired, rundown CBD into a vibrant, thriving mixed use precinct, which 25,000 workers now call home. Parramatta Square is the largest commercial office precinct in Australia.

In Melbourne, Collins Square is a city within a city, comprising of six office towers, the restored historic Goods Shed South and over 10,000 square metres of retail.

Parramatta Square

He also strives to continuously raise the benchmark in residential living with his meticulous planning for wide open spaces and beautiful amenities, resulting in outstanding communities at Hope Island Resort, Main Drive Kew, Wallis Creek, Appin, Banksia Grove, Mt Barker and Riverlea.

The grand vision for South Australia’s largest master planned community Riverlea, is 12,000 homes for over 45,000 people, with sport facilities and ovals alongside 450 hectares of parkland and open space, with 50 hectares of lakes, surrounded by 42km of recreation trails with bike paths and running tracks.

Inside his commercial towers Lang’s appreciation for art and sculptures is contagious with workers captivated by beautiful pieces from John Olsen, Michael Johnson, Chris Kenyon, Yaritji Young and more.

Lang has received many prestigious awards including being named the Urban TaskForce’s Property Person of the Year in 2004 and 2022 and was inducted into the Property Council’s Australian Property Hall of Fame in 2017. In 2015 Lang was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for his varied and continuous service to the community as a supporter of social welfare, medical research, health care, heritage, sporting causes and commerce.

Lang is leading an impressive transformation in Johor Bahru in Malaysia with 45,000 dwellings strategically linking to Singapore via the new Rapid Transit System, revolutionising home ownership for families who could never afford some of the world’s most expensive Singaporean real-estate.

He works with his teams to find and implement the latest cutting-edge design and technology, further enhancing our industry leading environmentally sustainable standards, ensuring we are creating places for multiple generations to enjoy.

Lang passionately supports a range of charities and community organisations, including the Lang Walker AO Medical Research Building - MacArthur, Powerhouse Museum – Parramatta, St Vincent’s Curran Foundation, Centre for Hearing Research at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, St Vincent’s Prostate Cancer Centre, The Chris O’Brien Lifehouse at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Children’s Cancer Institute Australia, Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation, the Property Industry Foundation, The Adelaide 36ers NBL team, The Blacktown City Football Club, The Sunshine Coast Falcons Kids with Special Abilities, The Appin Dogs Rugby League team, the Australian Olympic Sailing Team, the Youth Sailing Academy and the Art Gallery of NSW.